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    Ancient DNA confirms Biblical account...


    For Culturally Illiterate Science Reporters, Canaanite DNA Yields Occasion to Slap Bible Around
    David Klinghoffer | @d_klinghoffer
    July 29, 2017, 1:00 AM
    https://evolutionnews.org/2017/07/fo...-bible-around/

    Obviously, your friends at Evolution News are not here to do Biblical exegesis. However, when science headlines tendentiously try to manipulate readers in order to slam the Bible, well, that’s fair game.

    The science story itself is fascinating and to all appearances solid.
    Human remains dating to some 3,700 year ago from ancient Canaanites yielded DNA revealing a startling overlap with modern-day Lebanese. ...


    ...Wow, that is interesting. How will they spin it? The headlines tell the tale: (URL links)

    “Study disproves the Bible’s suggestion that the ancient Canaanites were wiped out” (The Telegraph)

    “Bible says Canaanites were wiped out by Israelites but scientists just found their descendants living in Lebanon” (The Independent)

    “Bronze Age DNA disproves the Bible’s claim that the Canaanites were wiped out: Study says their genes live on in modern-day Lebanese people” (Daily Mail)

    “Scientists Find Evidence That Ancient Canaanites Survive Today: Was The Bible Wrong?” (Tech Times)

    “New DNA study casts doubt on Bible claim” (Mother Nature Network)

    “The Bible was WRONG: Civilisation God ordered to be KILLED still live and kicking” (Express)

    “Genetic evidence suggests the Canaanites weren’t destroyed after all” (Ars Technica)

    “Canaanites Weren’t Annihilated by Ancient Israelites After All” (Newser)

    “Study disproves the Bible’s claim that the ancient Canaanites were wiped out” (Click Lancashire)

    “Canaanites survived Biblical ‘slaughter’, ancient DNA shows”(ABC Online)

    “DNA vs the Bible: Israelites did not wipe out the Canaanites” (Cosmos)

    “The Bible got it wrong: Ancient Canaanites survived and their DNA lives in modern-day Lebanese” (Pulse Headlines)


    The only problem with this reporting? The Bible is detailed and unambiguous in relating that the Canaanites survived Joshua’s invasion. So it’s no wonder they have living descendants. I’m not here to pass judgment on ancient Canaanites or ancient Israelites, on the Bible, Joshua, or anyone else. But come on, reporters, where’s your elementary cultural literacy, of which knowing a thing or two about the Bible is a key element?

    The first chapter in Judges lists all the places in Israel where the Canaanites persisted,
    “to this day,” “for they did not drive them out,” “he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land,” etc. God is not happy with this, for “they shall be as snares to you, and their gods shall be a trap to you”...



    The ancient DNA evidence comprises the “complete genomes of five Canaanite individuals who lived almost 4,000 years ago in what’s now the modern-day Lebanese city of Sidon” (Science Daily). Interestingly, the Canaanites in that ancient city are among those that the Bible specifically says lived on (Judges 1:31) to cause serious trouble for the Israelites.

    Ars Technica never heard of any of this:....

    ...

    ...Neither did The Telegraph:...

    The ancient Canaanites were not wiped out, as the Bible suggests, but went on to become modern-day Lebanese, a study has found.

    The article in The Independent even manages to work in a famously obnoxious quote from Richard Dawkins:

    It is a command that led the leading atheist Richard Dawkins to claim that the God of the Old Testament was “a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser … a genocidal … megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully”.

    For God had ordered the Israelites to slaughter the apparently sinful Canaanites, saying: “You shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them.” And, according to the Bible, they did just that.

    However, a new genetic study has found that the Canaanites actually managed to survive this purge of their traditional homeland, passing on their DNA over the centuries to their numerous descendants in modern-day Lebanon.

    Even the reputable journal Science, in a reporting article, had to backtrack with an editor’s correction, blandly styled as an “update”:

    This story and its headline have been updated to reflect that in the Bible, God ordered the destruction of the Canaanites, but that some cities and people may have survived.

    ...

    In the Bible’s account, they definitely survived, in large numbers. The original headline? “Ancient DNA counters biblical account of the mysterious Canaanites.” It should be, “Ancient DNA confirms biblical account…”

    No doubt about it, the war against the Canaanites is among the most politically incorrect narrative elements in the whole of Scripture. That it was incompletely carried out is attested to by the Bible, and now demonstrated by modern genetic analysis. ...



    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    I saw one of the "fake news" headlined on Facebook yesterday and immediately responded to the person stating that the book of Judges is clear about the fact that Israel did NOT wipe out the Canaanites (to their own hurt). These "fake news" people play on the vast and growing Bible illiteracy that has become prevalent in this generation and it is working. Even some non-Bible reading Christians fall for this stuff.

    There is a reason that we urged to meditate on God's Word day and night. Satan is becoming bolder in spreading outright lie. He used to be more subtle but now with the expansion of Bible ignorance he no longer has to waste time with subtility. He is able to outright LIE and be successful with it.
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